Tokyo Review
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6.2KSecurityNorth Korea: Decoupling the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Tension over North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs recently took a startlingly intimate turn for residents of Japan’s northernmost prefectures, who were...
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5.4KSecurityIran, Trump, and Japan’s Security
If you live in Japan and turned on your TV around 6:00am last Tuesday morning, instead of the typical peppy morning news show,...
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8.7KPoliticsKoike’s Korean Problem
Though elected as a crusading reformer, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is showing her right-wing roots - and risking her fragile coalition -...
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8.4KPoliticsThe High Cost of Running for Office
Lord Buckethead, a political candidate who ran against UK Prime Minister Theresa May in the 2017 general election, became an internet sensation...
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39.4KSocietyThe Myth of Japan’s Bored Police
Japan's crime rate being so low that police are bored has become a popular meme; in reality, the police often ignore sexual...
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13.7KEconomyWhat Now for Japan after TPP?
In recent years, the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), more an international investor’s rights agreement than a trade liberalization agreement, based...
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Society
Japan by the Numbers: Birth is Too Painful
Japan has one of the lowest rates of pain-free delivery in the developed world: only 5.2 percent of mothers were given epidural anesthesia...
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7.8KPoliticsUntangling Yasukuni
The complex history of Yasukuni Shrine makes it an intractable problem for Japan's foreign relations; the uneasy compromise of senior politicians avoiding...
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7.5KPoliticsCandidate Recruitment Secures the LDP’s Future
Twenty F̶o̶u̶r̶ [First Century Liberal Democratic] Party People
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10.6KEconomyJapan by the Numbers: Too Many Holidays?
Today, Japan celebrates the country’s lofty peaks with a day of rest. Yup, August 11 is Mountain Day in Japan, the country’s...
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5.9KPoliticsImagining an Effective Opposition
Japan lacks effective and coherent political opposition - but is it even possible to imagine what that might look like?
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17.8KSocietyThe Dark Side of Japan’s “Okinawa Boom”
There is probably some hypocrisy in discussing the appropriation of Okinawan culture from an Okinawan restaurant that has recently opened in a...